Not a sexy topic in this era hipness and celebrity, but real wages fell again, this time to their lowest as a percentage of the gross domestic product since 1947.
Some will notice and I suppose for those who like change in politics, one will find solace at the voting booth this Fall and […]
Between what matters and what truly doesn’t matter, it’s amazing anything truly gets done.
Get a load of Katherine Harris’ troubles, poor gal, telling the Florida Baptist Witness that separation of church and state is a “lie.” Interesting thinking that she has more to offer our country other than helping cheat to get a man […]
Let’s be clear about some things here.
America is all about freedom of worship. I think most people are into that.
Which is why it’s incredibly annoying and at times infuriating when people proselytize–out in the street, in campus dorms, in malls, in subways–you name it.
And I’m not one for overinflating the extent of the threat […]
Hey! I’m no Einstein, but…
“The Palestine problem, as I see it, is two-fold. There is first the business of settling the Jews in the country. This demands external assistance on a large scale; it cannot be successfully accomplished unless the national resources of Jewry are laid under contribution. The second task […]
With the Yankees surging and knocking the Red Sox all over Fenway Park last weekend, Mets fans had cause for concern.
No more!
Shawn Green has come home to Hymie Town! (Jesse Jackson eat your heart out.)
Seriously folks.
This has me thinking about leadership (what else?) and how Jewish identities are formed. Living in […]
Walking in to my favorite Park Slope institution, the Food Co-Op, past the gauntlet of security and up the staircase toward the offices, I saw on the stairwell a glossy poster demanding accountability for U.S./Israeli War Crimes in Lebanon and Palestine. The International Action Center, founded by Ramsey Clark, who, when he wasn’t busy […]
A community member heads off to Israel on a solidarity mission and her child tells her she needs to check out websites that concern themselves with the humanitarian situation in Lebanon.
48 youth leaders from the Reform Movement applaud the movements support for Israel while at the same time imploring leaders with the obligation to show […]
What would you do with $70 million?
Would you build a Jewish Museum in San Francisco?
I wouldn’t.
But then again, I don’t have $70 million.
If I did, here’s what I’d do:
Invest in teachers’ salaries in day schools, summer camps, and Hebrew schools. Train them, pay them, understand who and what is at stake on the frontlines […]
Walter Benjamin, the German Jewish literary critic who took his own life in 1940 one day before his visa came through that would have allowed him to escape to safety during the World War 2, was a culture-critic hero to some musical friends of mine who read him in art school.
One would think, that given […]
“People who read journals get what they deserve.”
So a friend used to say, and so I learned, last night, when I explained to my wife that I was interested in reading what I used to write, twenty years ago, when I was a student at Hebrew University, walking around Jerusalem for the first time in […]